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BPOA 06, 1365 (P291859)
Administrative, Ur III, Umma · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE
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| Designation | BPOA 06, 1365 |
|---|---|
| ID | P291859 |
| Museum no. | NBC 00937 |
| Collection | Nies Babylonian Collection, Yale Babylonian Collection, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| Language | Sumerian |
| Period | Ur III · c. 2100 BCE–2000 BCE |
| Genre | Administrative |
| Find spot | Umma (mod. Tell Jokha) |
| Coordinates | 31.6669, 45.8861 |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative · CDLI: reuse of catalogue/transliteration data with citation of CDLI; images restricted (not fetched)
Machine draft. The right-hand column is machine English from ixmon/atf-to-english (atf-en-t5base-F, 2026-10-17), generated line by line from the transliteration. It is unreviewed and is not a scholarly translation.
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| obverse | ||
| 1 | 3(gesz'u) 6(gesz2) 4(u) sar | 220 (sar) |
| 2 | gi ze2-a 1(u) 5(disz) sar-ta | reed, at 15 sar (per day) |
| 3 | a2-bi u4 2(gesz2) 2(u) 6(disz) 1/3(disz)!-kam | its labor: 166 1/3 days; |
| 4 | 4(gesz2) 2(u) 5(disz) sar al 5(disz) sar-ta | 145 sar, hoed at 5 sarta (per day), |
| 5 | a2-bi u4 5(u) 5(disz)! | its labor: 55 days; |
| 6 | 8(gesz2) 3(u)! sar {u2}kiszi17 ku5-a 1(u) 5(disz) sar-ta | 390 sar, cut juniper at 15 (volume-)sar (per day) |
| reverse | ||
| 1 | a2-bi u4 4(u) 2(disz)-kam | its labor: 42 days; |
| 2 | a-sza3 amar-kiszi17 | field Amar-kiši |
| 3 | nu-banda3-gu4 lugal-{d}isztaran | oxen manager: Lugal-Ištaran |
| 4 | ugula lu2-dingir-ra | foreman: Lu-dingira; |
| 5 | kiszib3 lugal-nig2-lagar-e | under seal of Lugal-nig-lagare; |
| 6 | mu sza-asz-szu2-ru-um a-ra2 2(disz)-kam <ba-hul> | year: “Šaššrum for the 2nd time was destroyed. |
| seal 1 | ||
| 1 | lugal-si-NE-e | Lugal-si-NE-e |
| 2 | dub-sar | scribe |
| 3 | dumu lugal-ezem | son of Lugal-ezem, |
Sources & licences
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- Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618) · ORACC project editions, https://oracc.museum.upenn.edu/ ; cite the individual project (see texts.extra_json.project)
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